After the Formalities
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About This Book

  • Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize
  • A Poetry Society Recommendation
  • A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year
  • One of The Telegraph's Best Poetry Books of 2019

A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family.

Anaxagorou 'speaks against the darkness', tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces, and celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet's Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic. Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric grace, he writes, 'I'm your father & the only person keeping you alive.'

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Publisher
Penned In The Margins
Year
2019
ISBN
9781908058737
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Uber

door
shuts
winds slap
a Magic Tree
around a
radio hums
songs
into us both
one of two
phones
rings
from an edge
he tells her
he’ll call back
in a language
half
packed
back
when
I assume
things
took a turn
for the worse
a flag
hanging
from the rear
view
I ask where
he says
Mauritius
returning
my question
I say
Cyprus
asking
if he prefers
it here
he says
sleep
is easier
the roads
at night
less congested
at the lights
I ask about
children
from his
pocket
he pulls
a photo
of a girl
I note
the way
her smile
matches
her mother’s
in the picture
everyone’s
together
smiling
she turned
nine last
week
he said
it’s been
over five
years
now
rain
wipers
wave
like a tired
pair of arms
a car
makes an
emergency
stop
a homeless
man
moves
like a saw
into traffic
when
will
you
see her
again
I ask
soon
soon
now
traffic
builds
the other way
would have
been quicker
he says
to our right
a van
pulls up
two men
motion
to lower
windows
in r...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Thanks
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Lockstep
  9. Cause
  10. Departure Lounge Twenty Seventeen
  11. Four Small Indiscretions
  12. Uber
  13. A Line of Simple Inquiry
  14. Things Already Lost
  15. After the Formalities
  16. How Men Will Remember Their Fathers
  17. Once I Had an Acceptance Speech
  18. Oiling Brakes
  19. Cocaine God
  20. Testimony as Omission
  21. There Are No Ends, Only Intervals
  22. Connatural
  23. Saying
  24. Sublimation
  25. Sympathy for Rain
  26. Life Insurance
  27. A Boy Stood Still
  28. Patricide
  29. Nautical Almanac
  30. Talking to Myself in Halves
  31. Meeting the End of the World as Yourself
  32. What the Lesser Water Boatman Had to Say
  33. Jeremy Corbyn at the Doctor’s Surgery
  34. Separation Has Its Own Economy
  35. Ecumene
  36. Following on from Kant
  37. Biographer
  38. Unpronounceable Circle
  39. I Kissed a Dead Man’s Mouth in May
  40. Two Daughters. Their Mother.
  41. A Discursive Meditation on the Photograph
  42. From Here the Camera Crew
  43. Inheritance
  44. Acknowledgments